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SDL_GetVideoDriver(3) SDL3 FUNCTIONS SDL_GetVideoDriver(3)

SDL_GetVideoDriver - Get the name of a built in video driver.

Defined in SDL3/SDL_video.h

#include "SDL3/SDL.h"
const char * SDL_GetVideoDriver(int index);

The video drivers are presented in the order in which they are normally checked during initialization.

The names of drivers are all simple, low-ASCII identifiers, like "cocoa", "x11" or "windows". These never have Unicode characters, and are not meant to be proper names.

the index of a video driver.

Returns the name of the video driver with the given index .

This function should only be called on the main thread.

This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.

(3), SDL_GetNumVideoDrivers(3)

SDL 3.2.10 Simple Directmedia Layer